Just "getting by"

How many of us wake each morning with gladness in our hearts at
the prospect of going to work? Perhaps the artist does, or the doctor
or nurse still with a vocation. Maybe the entrepreneur. Perhaps
some chief executives.

But for many of us, work is the thing we do between living our
lives to the full, the moments of real joy - the fulfilling hobby,
the time spent with our friends, family, children. What if we could
bring that same joy, that same sense of fulfilment into our working
lives?

Not only "what if we could" - we must. We owe it to ourselves
to live our lives to the full and joyously all the time. Not just
squeezed into evenings and weekends. We spend some 30-40 years of
our lives in this activity called "work". Often over half
our waking hours are spent just "getting by". What chance
have people who are "just getting by" at work of being
creative, being effective, coping with change, making good business
decisions?

And yet it has never been more important that we are effective
in our working lives. Companies are now more powerful than governments.
The decisions made and actions taken in companies, by people who
are "just getting by" impact on all of us.

Let's begin to live our working lives effectively, joyously and
to the full. We can do so by paying attention to the deep and subtle
energies in our bodies.